welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. right now, donald trump is about to speak to the most receptive audience that he could fine, the cpac faithful eagerly eating up his return to the national stage. the former president's appearance is coming more than seven weeks after the capitol hill riots and his lies about a stolen election fueled. six weeks after the house of representatives impeached him for inciting insurrection against the country that he was pledged to lead, five weeks after leaving the white house

without greeting his successor or attending joe biden's inauguration, and two weeks after a majority of senators voted in favor of his impeachment, including seven republicans, by the way, short of the number needed to convict. and it comes one here and 500,000 deaths -- 500,000 americans, after his 2020 appearance before this same group in which he down played the dangers of covid. it also comes as his fellow republicans grapple with the existential question of whether they are totally and forever the party of donald trump. >> is this still donald trump's party? >> it's the voter's party. >> we are going to be on the same stage as, in my opinion, the real, the legitimate, and the still actual president of

the united states, donald trump. >> if we idolize one person, we will lose. and that's kind of clear are the last election. >> the least popular in our party donald trump and the donald trump supporters. >> i think what you are going to hear from the president at cpac today is self congratulations, no ability to recognize the fact that they have lost the house, the senate, and the presidency, because of donald trump. and you are going the see a lot of fear. into all right. so the president's speech coming as the president, the senate and the white house is pushing for covid rely, the $1.9 trillion mega bill and overseeing a national strategy for the rollout what have will now be three vaccines. >> at this point in time, though, what this proposal is going to address is how we are going to help people bridge through this period of time, get them direct checks, reopen schools, get more vaccines in the arms of americans.

we have not seen a substantive big proposal in response back from republicans. >> he's not willing to compromise on the things that we need to get the virus under control and get the economy back on track. >> you now have three highly efficacious vaccines, for sure. there is no doubt about that. and particularly the recent results from j&j, if you look at the efficacy against severe disease, greater than 85%. >> and former president trump's return to the national stage is where we begin this hour. nbc's ali vitali is at cpac in orlando with the latest on all this. before -- as we are awaiting the former president to get started with his speech -- i believe he is running a birthday late at this point but we expected that, considering we have been reporting on him the last six years or so. i wanted to name off some of the names of the folks that are actually not in attendance. mitch mcconnell wasn't invited. mitt romney not invited.

mike pence declined to answer the. nikki haley, rand paul also declined to attend. not attending as well, liz cheney. there are reports that the president is likely the name names, name his enemies, right, to the cpac audience? >> yeah. >> what is the likelihood we are going to hear some of these folks come out of president's mouth? >> as far as i am hold there is a really high probability that those are some of the names you are going the hear, especially is number three republican congresswoman liz cheney. you mentioned her name. that is a name that is very much in the ether here. allies of the former president are angry at here for her comments saying donald trump is not the future this party that republicans should lean away from him and of course voting to impeach him a few weeks ago. she was one of seven

republicans, certainly the most high-profile. and i am told there is a 99.99% chance that donald trump explicity mentions her name here at cpac on the stain. you todd about the story line of who is here versus who is not. i think that's extremely interesting especially because if the lineup of this conference were held in, say, des moines, iowa, or manchester, new hampshire, the conversation would be this is a slate of republicans hoping to run in 2024. the vibe i have gotten here is thee folks, lawmakers who maybe want to run in 2024 and become the trump heir apparent if he doesn't run have talked about political correctness and going against cancel culture you can pull up maybe the top line on the screen of the straw polls. when donald trump is included in

the approximately results 55% of the folks here say they would like him to be the 2024 nominee. that being said when you take him out of the results, ron de santis becomes the guy with just over 40%. then a lot of the other folks in the poll are in single digits. when you talk about the people not here, nikki haley, mike pence, they are all in single digits when you consider the way the answer thees at this conference are looking a the future of this party. one layer deeper into the results.id, only 68% of people want him to run again. 68%, that's a clear majority. at the same time, this is a conference that come people were calling t pac. there is a golden statue of forearm president trump. the fact he is only getting 68% of the people saying they want

him to run again in 2024, i think that's fascinating and it sort of tracks the conversations that i had with voters inside here. when i asked them if they are here because it is all about former president trump, they say yes and no. because they are looking at some of the younger talent this party has to offer. south dakota's kristi noem or josh hawley or ted cruz. these names are gaining more resonance in the right wing part of the party. i think republicans are starting to realize at a conference like this trump is someone who is beloved by at least this section of the republican party but it may come out as we get closer to them deciding on the next presidential election maybe he is more beneficial as a king maker as opposed to a candidate himself. he is saying this is only the beginning of the movement towards 2024. at the same time he has not announced anything specific going forward. >> i dwich every time you say to

your, ali. >> maybe you do. this is my bread and butter, though. >> by the way, i just want to make itcally, everybody, we are going to be monitoring the former president's speech. if there is any news to be made, we will bring it to you. otherwise, we are just going to be monitoring it and not necessarily bringing it to you live. ali vitali thank you. i want to bring in bill kristol. tim o'brien, emily tisch sussman host of the political play list podcast and democratic strategist and former vice president of campaigns for the center of american progress. and alexi mchammond, political reporter for axios and a msnbc contributor. i feel like you are all twitching alongside me in the mention of 2024. because it's just a little bit jarring to even think about. bill kristol, i want to start with you. i want to start with the ominous

tweet that you sent out. i was asking my e.p. what you meant by it tell me what you many by it. it is this, one does have the sense that cross examination cpac has gone from resembling a "star wars" bar to a munich -- >> i am with you on the twitching. the sem serious version of that though, is this is a party that refuses to address the big lie that the propose propounded about the election and that had serious results on january 6th. this is a party that refuses to say that trump didn't win on november 3rd and that joe biden won the election freely and fairly. so, you know, in a way it is fun to look at the straw follow and think about 2024. but that's the -- i mean, that's all small bore i would say compared to the big -- we have never had this, never had this in modern american history a major gathering of a major part of the conservative movement which is the major part of the

republican party waeskcally continuing to propagate a big lie after the election is long over, still enthralled to the former president. the reason it is more like a munich beer hall than a "star wars" bar. we used to compare it to a "star wars" war, it was crazy, wacky, some oddballs, extremists, some distasteful people. but you didn't feel like it was dangerous to the country. i watched a little bit of it on friday. i felt a little more like germany in the '20s than america in the 2020s: the fanatical attachment to this man, attacks on other movements, not that we disagree with him on policy or they are to the up to the job but they are enemies of the people, of america. and they are continuing to problem gate the big lie. that's what i meant by that. >> yeah. alexi, i have got to say some of what i have been hearing coming

out of cpac i can't help but think -- i feel as if they are in another world. you are listening to the head of goya. we played some of his sound earlier as we were leading into this panel. i don't know his exact title but he basically says donald trump is still the president of the united states. and he pushes these lies over and over again. and we are continuing to hear these lies on the national stage at cpac, it's one of the reasons why we are not necessarily playing it back to back. but it's astounding to me. as if they are living in a completely different universe. and reporters on the ground, ali, bringing it to us, these individuals still trying to, and understanding, believing this lie that the president pushed, that this election was fraudulent. it's amazing. >> yeah. i mean, there is so much to unpack here. because i think a lot about when donald trump was just a candidate in the 2016 election and how his whole cult of personal as around this idea of

oh, i am not politically correct, you don't have to be either. we have seen how not being politically correct evolved into this dangerous at times violent and totally conspiratorial lifestyle where folks believe that the election was stolen and that's why donald trump lost. they think it was rigged because of widespread voter fraud and that's why he lost. they endorse asked tried to act on inciting violence against sitting members of congress on both sides of the aisle because it has been this cult of personality where they thought, okay, we don't have to be p.c. but no look at what that's turned out to be. you see that reflected in folks like senator ted cruz making a joke about going to cancun. laura bowberg using her own gun as a zoom backgrounds during an official house meeting earlier this month. you also see it at the state

level. i think that's why whether or not donald trump is the leader of the republican party doesn't run as deep as -- the republican party in colorado is doubling down on the baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. they are citing that as the reason why they are introducing a number of bills that make it harder for people the vote. their pushing through legislation to restrict access to voting because of this big lie, so to speak, and this idea that the election was stolen from donald trump because of voter fraud, there is no evidence for that. but that's still happening at the state and around the country at many of these local republican parties. to an extent it doesn't really matter if donald trump is the so-called leader or in official power, trumpism has fully infected the party. >> you bring up such good point, emily. i want to read something from

the "washington post" article on the soul of the gop. it reads this. it's donald trump's party. it is the party of representative marjorie taylor greene. this was from sarah longwell. she goes on, we are maybe 10%. trump needed to be thoroughly repudiated only then could you have a fight for the soul of the republican party. that didn't happen. couple that with senator cassidy who was on cnn i believe earlier this modern who said we have got win in two years, win in four years. if we did that we will do that by speaking to issues important to american people, and there is a lot important to them right now not by putting one person on a pedestal. but if you don't do the repudiation how is it that you intend to speak on the issues when you are putting all of your eggs in one basket, that being donald trump? >> i think that's exactly right. senator cassidy says we have to win. win for what?

what does the republican party stand for right now other than being a cult of personal around trump? politics on a lot of the issues, a lot of issues changed under the last four years because of president trump. partly because he picked issues and places where he could fire up his supporters. potentially reaching out the news reporter, he virtually never did that at all. but adopted issues that seemed convenient for him. i think there is realignment between republican and democratic principles is around minimum wage. even though it has been traditionally seen as a democratic idea republicans are seeing there is a place for movement because people want it. because they haven't -- >> but what republicans actually see that? yes, i talked about that yesterday on the show, right, because they are seeing it as more of a popular movement, they

understand some of their supporters could benefit from a $15 minimum wage. but you have the mitch mcconnells who belief in the republican ideal, that it is going to hurt small businesses, that the minimum wage shouldn't be 15 there an hour, it is going to balloon the deficit, so on and so forth. sure, it's hopping. >> romney and -- >> go ahead. >> romney and cotton introduced a bill in the senate for a $10 minimum wage. i am not going to argue that romney is the soul of the republican party. but cotton wants to be president. he sees upside there. to your point about mcconnell and the republicans following him, i think mckponl is actually out on a limb more than people are realizing in trying to hold on to republican principles of not even ten years ago. ten years ago was the tea party. but of 15 years ago. i think he's really trying to hang on. i think we should not forget that before the republican party was the permit of trump was the

tea appear. they came through washington, came through state houses. that's where we are seeing a lot of pick up on issues right now. >> tim o'brien, my friend, sorry to leave you hanging. i want to bring you into the conversation here and talk about kind this prospect that's making us twitch, 2024. and the reason i want to kind of go further with this is i think it is important we remind folks first and foremost, donald trump lost the election by 8 million votes. and secondly, over the next four years, it's not -- he's not just going to be talking about possibly running again for re-election in 2024, but instead, he is owing up to, i believe, $1 billion, from what we understand n regard to his financial disclosures. he is going to be battling cy vance in new york courts. i mean,s that major uphill battle for the former president, where much of his time is going to be occupied, possibly criminally. >> i mean, i think, you know,

the two motivating factors, yasmin, that had him propagate the big lie and say the election was rigged was that he was -- he has this reptilian sensibility about surviving and he understood that he lost the powers and insulation of the presidency he was going to be facing criminal charges in new york and a very full-blooded forensic financial investigation that not only threatens him, but it threatens the trump organization. it threatens people working there. and it threatens his three eldest children. and he's got about $1 billion -- more than $1 billion in debt against around $2 billion in assets. and those assets are all getting seriously devalued because they are urban, resident and commercial real estate that has been hit severely by the pandemic. and then he runs a bunch of sort of low-level resort operations that aren't his most lucrative businesses, but those are hurting as well.

i think that that's what has motivated his assault on democracy, his assault on the truth, his assault on the results of the 2020 election. and we really, i think, have to embrace what all of my friends joining me here today have already pointed to directly, which is that we are in a very, very dangerous time because, yes, the gop is inmeshed in this cult of personality around donald trump. but it's also openly embracing stoking racism and disinformation to acquire power for the sheer sake of just acquiring power. as opposed to embracing classic conservative presence pels around things like a hawkish foreign policy or fiscal probity or law and order. they have seen that donald trump can win over the hearts and minds of people, that he actually had no super in helping. the gop can't get its arms around a minimum wage law or a minimum wage policy because they

aren't authentically behind delivering policy right now to average working americans. they are around acquiring power and holding onto it at all costs. now, one little tiny bright spot i think in this cpac poll was i think 32% of cpac attendees said they didn't see getting behind trump in 2024. so he's with the most maga of maga people and they are not fully on -- a third of them aren't fully on board with him into yeah, that was something that ali vitali brought up that i thought was fascinatesing. bill kristol, tim o'brien, emily tisch sussman thank you for joining us. up next, a clinic in california is one of the first being devoted to studying and treating covid long haulers, people suffering long term effects from the coronavirus. i will be joined by a doctor and a patient to talk about what they have learned so far. we'll be right back.

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welcome back, everybody. a cdc panel has just endorsed emergency use of the j&j vaccine allowing inoculations to begin as early as this week according to the "washington post." the panel voted unanimously in an emergency session to recommend the vaccine for use among americans 18 and older, making it the first vaccine authorized here in the united states that does not need to be kept frozen or followed by a second shot.

it's also been a year of grueling research for scientists battling the coronavirus. the public knows far more today than it did more than a year ago thanks to their efforts. and yet the long term impacts of the virus remains largely a mystery. for patients now known as long haulers whose covid symptoms are yet to disappear the question is not when they will get better, but if they will get better. here's nbc's gabe gutierrez with more. >> reporter: a recent study founded about 30% of covid patients reported persistent symptoms months after the initial illness. this past week the national institutes of health launched a billion dollar initiative to study long haulers and for the first time gave the condition a formal name. >> many of you are now aware of what had been called long covid. actually what that is a post acute sequelae of sars covid-2,

and we are calling it pasc. >> with me now are dr. sand rock with uc davis medical group, and michelle, who is a uc davis post covid-19 clinic patient. thank you to you both. verb appreciate it. michelle, i want to start with you and understand when it is that you had covid, and what symptoms have persisted since you dealt with covid. >> yeah. absolutely. i first got covid back in early june of 2020. and my first few weeks of it were actually very mild. so i felt like i only had some slightarilies, i didn't have any fever, loss of taste, anything like that. but around that second week i woke up in the middle of the night with the most intense chest pain and breathing issues i had ever had. i thought i was having a heart attack, actually.

so i rushed to the er immediately. and it was there that the nurses offered to give me a covid-19 test. so those initial symptoms of the chest pain and a lot of the breathing difficulties are the ones that have stuck with me the most throughout this time. i think the interesting thing about being a post covid patient is that you are always struggling with new things that are coming up. so the past few months, i have been struggling a lot more with fatigue, brain fog, other neurological issues. >> wow. have you received any treatment for some of these persistent effects? >> yeah. so, i actually initially went to california. i normally live in arizona. but i went to california because i was hoping to get treatment at the uc davis clinic. while i was there they did a lot of really great tests, they made sure that i didn't have any underlying heart or lung problems left from the disease, that i didn't have blood clots in my lungs. that was a large worry.

but in december, my health insurance changed, and so i had to go back to arizona and i was never really able to get on a full treatment plan. there are a few things that we have been trying at home in conversations with the uc davis doctors still, things like slow exercise therapy, making sure to pace myself as this illness seems to share a lot with chronic fatigue syndrome. but outside of that, that's one of the difficulties of being this kind of patient is people aren't really sure what's going to work yet. so you are just having to take it day-by-day and hope that treatments will come out. >> quickly, michelle, have you gotten the vaccine yet? because there is an idea or anecdotal reports of folks getting the vaccine and some of those persistent symptoms that they have had have gone away with the vaccine? >> i have not gotten the vaccine yet. but i am signed up for march. i am definitely excited to be getting it into so, dr., i want to bring you into the conferring here. first and foremost, do you have any anecdotal evidence to

support what i just brought up, this idea of getting the vaccine that may actually eliminate some of these persistent long hauler symptoms this so many covid patients are now dealing with? >> that's a great question. we have actually had a mix of symptoms resolve. actually some get a little worse. so i think the patients have been really all over the map. part of what you have seen from both the cdc and the nih is really to focus on research in this area and to see if actually improving the patients' outcomes by vaccinations or other methods will matter. anecdotally so few of my patients have actually received the vaccine because of where they lie in the tier. i haven't had a chance to get that many. it will be interesting to see what happens with michelle after her vaccine next month. >> is some of what michelle and other long haulers are dealing with -- is it kind of resembleant, doctor, of what so many lyme disease patients are dealing with, which is, in a

way, the virus kind of is at times quieted down in your body and then reemerges at certain times for a long period of time? >> yeah. it's -- that's a great question. what we see in this post acute covid period and phase is that patients aren't infectious. just like with lyme disease or with chronic fatigue or other chronic illnesses associated with infection. there is no active infection and there is all a sequela of the process. whether it is brain fog or chest pain or low oxygen levels, those are all a by-product of the infection. chronic if a feeg and chronic lyme are a slightly different process. there is a lot of overlap of what's going on physiologically seems to be different than what we have seen in the post covid period. there is a lot of variability. that's part of what we are going to look for in research. we have hypotheses as to why

people have these symptoms after covid and after an acute infection. it may be that in one person there is one reason and in another person it is another reason. >> again we still have so much to learn when it comes to covid-19, good luck, michelle, in getting your vaccine. thank you to both of you. up next, a second former aide to new york governor cuomo has come forward with alization of sexual harassment. we will have the latest on that reporting from the "new york times." as we go to break, we look at orlando, forearm president trump is moments away from taking the stage there at cpac. we will monitor it and bring you any news out of it. we'll be right back. right back. a waiver. [loud laughter] (woman) is this even a road? (man) yeah. (woman) so what should we do second?

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welcome back. new york governor andrew cuomo is calling for an independent review following a second allegation of sexual harassment from a former aide. he denied both allegations.

after initially collecting his special counsel to lead the probe cuomo's office confirmed the new york attorney general and chief judge will choose someone to conduct the investigation. new york attorney general la tischia james fired back at cuomo's statement saying she rejects the governor's proposal and stands by her earlier request for a referral from cuomo's office to gran investigative authority and subpoena power. blaine alexander has more about the allegations surrounding this governor. >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo is once again on the defensive after a second woman has come forward accusing him of sexual harass member. according to the "new york times," 25-year-old charlotte bennett, a former cuomo aide says she became uncomfortable when the governor asked about her romantic life, even inquiring whether she had been with an older man. i understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me, and i felt horribly uncomfort skbl stared, bennett said, according to the tooils. in a state, the governor, while noting benity has every right to

speak out denies the allegations. ms. bennett's initial impression was right the statement reads, i was trying to be a mentor to her. i never made advances toward miss bennett nor did i ever intend to act in any ways that inappropriate. it comes just days after another former employee, lindsey boylan details harassment alleging the governor asked her to play strip poker and gave her an unsolicited kiss on the lips. cuomo called those allegations quite simply false. it is a sharp turn from just months ago when he was widely praised for his handling of the wires pandemic. his daily briefingsings won an emmy award and inspired a book. the governor recently under fire for his handling of nursing home deaths during the pandemic. all of this calling into question cuomo's seeking a

fourth term next year. >> as the governor eyes that fourth term in office, speculation is swirling who might be challenging his seat. among the possible contenders is new york attorney general leticia james herself whose bombshell report on cuomo's handling of the nursing home deaths during the pandemic surfaced last month. a lot has been unraveling with the cuomo administration as of late, alexi. how does this second allegation, how does this push it even further into this somewhat of a death spiral, shall i say, for him in. >> well, as you mentioned and my reporting shows even before these allegations came out there were quiet but growing discussions prong strategists who were eyeing james as a

challenger to governor cuomo. they point to the fact she's no stranger to picking big fights. she picked them with former president trump. she took on the nra, facebook, google, and that nursing home report directly takes on the governor she works with. some were worried she might have a cozy relationship with governor cuomo and she has taken a number of steps in her job to show she is acting independently and according to the law. folks are looking to her as someone who could step up even before this happened of the now that it has happened i think it is going to accelerate the public calls for her and others to step up. i know there were a number of people who would like to see governor cuomo go. but how afraid are they to say it in public? i think now with the allegation, as unfortunate and difficult to hear as they are that's going

the cause people to talk about it more publicly and get the ball rolling on potential challengers. >> it is astounding the way the tides have changed, where we were a year ago and the way so pane people saw governor cuomo and where he is now. how realistic is it that his political future is in real peril here? >> politics in new york are incredibly complex, when your last name is cuomo or when you are challenging somebody whose last name is cuomo. new yorkers still really like him. but getting a fourth term as governor is already difficult. these allegations make it really difficult. and i think, you know, what i have heard from a number of folks, yasmin, over and over again, is that the nursing home report and now these allegations continue to crack at the veneer that surrounds governor cuomo as

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welcome back, everybody. we are approaching the one year anniversary of the coronavirus shutdown. at this time last year, things still seemed pretty normal. we knew something was looming. we knew people were dying somewhere else. all anyone talked about was covid, and what would happen. but we talked about it while out to dinner, indoors, after a long week going to work, in person, and sending our kids to school every single day. now, everything is different. and around this time i remember talking about a vaccine, and the talk grew as the shutdown began. all we wanted was a cure, something to stop people from dying, something to stop the shutdowns. at that point, the fastest vaccine ever doped was four years. the estimation were 18 months if to the two years. then in december we got word pfizer was ready, less than a year sin the shutdown. not only was it ready, but it had over 90% efficacy when most

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we began it together four years ago -- >> welcome back, everybody. former president donald j. trump has taken the stage at cpac in orlando, florida, about an hour and 10 minutes late. this is actually the first time that we have teen the president in this capacity since he was president of the united states. he's expected to address his place in the republican party and possibly name certain republicans he feels as if have wronged him. we're going to continue to monitor the speech. if, of course, the former president makes any news, we'll bring it to aio. otherwise, we want to look at what's happening this week.

marking 30 years since lapd officers brutally beat rodney king, and tomorrow, debate is beginning in congress about a police accountability bill named after george floyd. a lot more happening this week as well. monday kicking off the first day of women's history month, and the senate judiciary committee is set to vote on merrick garland's nomination for attorney general. fbi director chris wray will testify on capitol hill on tuesday on the insurrection. followed by another hearing on the capitol attack on wednesday, and of course, the covid relife bill is now in the hands of the senate, and all eyes are focused on if that will pass before unemployment benefits expire for millions of americans. nbc's amanda golden is joining us with more. amanda, good to see you this afternoon. thanks for joining us on this. take us through exactly what we expect in the week ahead. >> a very busy week here. to hone in on the covid relief

bill motions. it passed the house in the wee hours of the morning, the $1.9 trillion package from president biden with a lot of details we expect to continue to be the same as it heads to the senate. $1400 stimulus checks going to individuals, billions for vaccine distribution and manufacturing, direct funding to local and state governments. there is one element that was passed in the house package that we are not expecting to see in the senate version. that's the $15 minimum wage increase. that's something progressive democrats are really behind, but it's good news to moderate democrats includingsima and man5 minimum wage increase was ruled not able to be a part of this senate version by the senate parliamentarian, saying it could not be a part of budget reconciliation, the process by which democrats are looking to push this through. now, senate majority leader

chuck schumer expected to make quick action with this. the details are a little tbd, but senators will return tomorrow, monday, so expect some quick action to take place with that, but what we're keeping an eye on is whether or not there's going to be any republican support when the package passed the house, there was no republican support, and two democratic congresspeople defected and decided not to support that bill moving forward. when it gets to the senate, expect at the bare minimum that 50/50 split. chuck schumer needs every democratic senator onboard to move forward with the process to get it passed. in order to do that, it will ultimately have to get back to the house to be repassed before eventually getting to biden's desk to be signed into law. this all comes as the white house and democratic lawmakers are really looking to turn this around by march 14th. that's the deadline by which unemployment benefits extended unemployment benefits expire. that's two weeks away. a lot to track this week, and a

number of other events taking place on the hill. there's going to be a lot of mixed focus but this is a key priority for the white house and looking to see if they can pull any bipartisan support, which we don't believe they'll see. it will be a narrow 50/50 split with vice president kamala harris looking to make the power with her president of the senate statute, so she could push it forward in the budget reconciliation process. >> and as you mentioned, the goal here to get something passed by march 14th so unemployment benefits for so many americans don't lapse. >> it was "snl" versus mtg last night. the show taking aim at marjorie taylor greene after she hung a poster outside of her office this week aimed at a colleague with a transgender child. the poster reads, there are two genders, male and female. trust the science. >> i think i sat on a gun.

>> oh, geez. >> is this mine or yours? >> i think you know it's yours. why did you put up that sign outside your office? >> because we have to trust the science, colin. you bow me, i'm a science person. i love science. i'm always talking science. okay. unless that science is about climate change, coronavirus, space lasers, evolution, the metric system, the rhythm method, jesus' skin color or santa's skin color. >> i'm yazman vusugen. a reminder to you all, starting tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, join matthew as he unpacked the news of the day with insightful reporting, probing interviews and riveting one-on-one conversations, and then joshua johnson breaking down the look that was and looks to the week ahead. >> up next, first, the rev and "politics nation."

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